Currently we are participating in the “A1 Challenge for Apps 2010″ which is a developer challenge hosted by the largest Austrian mobile network operator, A1 (yes, we have our roots in Austria).

We joined this challenge as an opportunity to implement a new App idea which has been in the back of our heads since room.404′s start. It will be in the field of “mountain risk management”, something with lot’s of local relevance.

Recently we visited Vienna to join a developer event held by A1. It was very interesting to get in contact with other platform developer’s like RIM and Nokia.
If you are interested, listen to our chit-chat in the video embedded below…

There is only one more month to go, so we’re really busy at the moment!

In the last few weeks Inserty has received two more updates, so 1.3.4 is the current version number. New features include eg. configureable GPS coordinates, which was one of our users’ requests.

We are very happy that so many users found Inserty useful, resulting in currently more than 11.000 downloads! *singanddance*
Thanks to everybody who provided us with feedback, comments and useful ideas!

We at room.404 are currently tied up in some other exciting projects in preparation for the Mobile World Congress, but after that we’ll spend some time on cool new Inserty features which we’ve been carrying around for a while.

By popular demand from our US users, this update adds a #STATE# tag to the list of possible dynamic text.
It should resolve to the current location’s state or province.(Tested in US, Germany and Austria… We would love to hear from you if it works alright (or doesn’t) elsewhere, too.)

Inserty now supports adding one or multiple default recipients which will automatically be used when creating a blank message from an Inserty text.
Also, we’ve been getting emails about adding further dynamic text tags, so Inserty now supports the following dynamic data:

#MYADDRESS# – The full address of the GPS location you are currently at

#MYSTREET# – Only the street name of the current location’s address

#MYZIPCODE# – The ZIP code of the current location

#MYCITY# – The city you are currently located in

#MYCOUNTRY# – The country you are currently located in

#MYGPS# – The GPS coordinates you are currently at

#MYTIME# – The local time

#MYDATE# – The current date

#MYGMAPSLINK# – A clickable link to Google Maps, zoomed to your current location